The Transportist - Newsletter - November 2016
Welcome to the second issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. Transportist Posts (Politics) Election Day should be on Veterans Day Denouement (on the election) My 2016 Politics posts in one place Transportist Posts (Policy, etc.) On the Need for Road Funding Could a Trump Administration Kill the Green Line | Boston Globe On ASCE's Report Card How to reduce investment needs On Trump's Infrastructure Plan Buckshot (Buck Sexton Show): On the Future of Infrastructure On Transport Funding in the New Administration Car2Gone: On the decline of Carsharing in the late 2010s Toronto looks at toll roads Transportist Posts (Other) Transportist 3000 Lanyard Man Transportist newsletter is out Escape with Spontaneous Access WSTLUR 2017 Yes Virginia, There is a Successful Macy's Recent Research Measuring the transportation needs of people with developmental disabilities: A means to social inclusion Developing a Comprehensive US Transit Accessibility Database Population exposure to ultrafine particles: size-resolved and real-time models for highways. Free til January 6, 2017 Elements of Access Elements of Access: Clustering Elements of Access: Meshedness Transport News How Amsterdam became a bike city (Sustainable Amsterdam) How Davis became a bike city (Guardian) Detroit's Pattern of Growth (movie, archive.org) Some ships have become so big that bridges need to be replaced (h/t Olaf Merk) As container ships get bigger, the number of carriers gets smaller (h/t Olaf Merk) 1920 was Peak Horse (h/t Benedict Evans) Book Review of Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman (NY Books, h/t Aaron Renn) New Discovery Broadens VW Emissions-Cheating Crisis (WSJ) Bus Bunching Explained Visually by Lewis Lehe Why American Trucks Are So Deadly for Pedestrians and Cyclists (Streetsblog) This bird can remain airborne for 10 months straight (MPR) Plane events: American Airlines, FedEx. Forecasts for solar frequently revised up (h/t Guy Kawasaki) (this is to be expected at the birth of a technology, see: Structural Errors in Forecasting ) How we Talk about not paying for Transportation (h/t Julia Silvis) Sidewalk Lab's Weekly Newsletter Trump's Infrastructure Policy: Privatizing Roads (Slate) Cities Must, and Will, Take Care of Themselves (Election Notes) (Human Transit) Hyperloop One unveils its entire system, announces deal to bring network to Dubai (Electrek) [Some imaginary futuristic bullshit] Global Gasoline Consumption Has All But Peaked (Bloomberg) Let the market take care of infrastructure (Marc Scribner - USA Today) Why Trump and the Republicans are desperate to sign a huge infrastructure bill (NY Mag) Sydney 2026: The commute (Sydney Morning Herald) Cheating VW ‘owes London £2.5m in congestion charges’ (Times of London) BMW, Baidu joint project on self-driving cars breaks down (Reuters) Key lawmaker: Trump favors privatizing air traffic control (AP) Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98 (NY Times) Automakers reach out to Trump on regulation, seek review of fuel efficiency mandates (Autonews) Metro rail from CBD to Parramatta confirmed - but it's $10b and 10 years away (Sydney Morning Herald) A future world full of driverless cars… seriously? (Alexa Delbosc) Public Spending. (OurWorldInData.org Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser) Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year (Bloomberg) Quote of the Month Importance of Good Roads (from Anonymous, c. 1917) ... This appeared in a bunch of newspapers of the era. ROADS RULE THE WORLD - NOT KINGS NOR CONGRESSES, NOT COURTS NOR CONSTABLES, NOT SHIPS NOR SOLDIERS. THE ROAD IS THE ONLY ROYAL LINE IN A DEMOCRACY, THE ONLY LEGISLATURE THAT NEVER CHANGES, THE ONLY COURT THAT NEVER SLEEPS, THE ONLY ARMY THAT NEVER QUITS, THE FIRST AID TO THE REDEMPTION OF ANY NATION, THE EXODUS FROM STAGNATION IN ANY SOCIETY, THE CALL FROM SAVAGERY IN ANY TRIBE, THE HIGH PRIEST OF PROSPERITY, WITHOUT BEGINNINGS OF DAYS OR END OF LIFE. THE ROAD IS UMPIRE IN EVERY WAR, AND WHEN THE NEW MAP IS MADE, IT SIMPLY PUSHES ON ITS GREAT CAMPAIGN OF HELP, HOPE, BROTHERHOOD, EFFICIENCY, AND PEACE. AND IF YOU LIKE THIS, THE TRANSPORTIST IS SPONSORED THIS MONTH BY THE LETTER "ZED" AND Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (Kindle, iBookstore) And The End of Traffic and The Future of Transport